TITLE: Skilled Hallucination
NAME: Noah Hornberger
COUNTRY: USAPersonal WEBPAGE: http://ww.provide.net/~hornberger
EMAIL: hornberger@provide.net
TOPIC: Unbelievable
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
JPGFILE: skilled.jpg
ZIPFILE: skilled.zip
RENDERER USED:
Ray Dream Studio 5.2 Ray Tracer
TOOLS USED:
Ray Dream Extensions SuperMesh, Quadrix, VisualLight 3D Aura,
Textures: Picture Publisher8
RENDER TIME:
55 Minutes
HARDWARE USED:
Pentium II, 128 MB RAM
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
"Skilled Hallucination" is a perfect example of something
unbelievable. The scene consists of related unbelievable objects that are
arranged to form a nice composition. The most obvious and probably the first
object that you will see is the digital clock. The current time is 12:66 . . .
a time that will never exist. The clock is tilting on a card castle and has a
blue glass ball balanced on top. On the bookshelf there are 4 books with
magical titles. The shelf is only supported on one side. On the desktop is a
warped checkerboard that has a sand dune formation. A palm tree is growing on
the "checked island" on the desk. Half of the image is lit with warm colored
light wile the other half is cold to create a dialog with the viewer. Over,
all the composition is nice (my main challenge).
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED:
First I started with the Desk. The
shelves and tabletop are made from Quadrix cubes to give them soft edges unlike
the hard-edged fake looking cube primitive. I hate it when I see perfect edges
on computer art. Then I made the card castle by scanning some cards and
applying the textures to a flat rectangle model. The clock texture took me
about an hour to draw in Picture Publisher8, it is applied to another Quadrix
model. I used the Supermesh extension to create the warped checkerboard. The
books are Quadrix cubes with title textures. I found the palm tree on the Ray
Dream 5 CD. The lighting took the better part of my time. I went through
about 10 different lighting arrangements before I found a pleasing one. After
about a month's work it was ready to render. I have included my source file if
you want to take a look.